President Obama was the butt of racist jibes in emails between Sony Pictures executive Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin. (Photos: Getty)

President Obama now has something in common with Angelina Jolie. He’s the latest public figure to get kicked around in leaked emails between Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal and blustery producer Scott Rudin.

The two Hollywood moguls wrote back and forth about the president in clearly racial terms, discussing what movies he might like to watch.

“Ride-along. I bet he likes Kevin Hart,” said Rudin of the African-American actor.

The leaked emails have to be especially embarrassing for Pascal, who is white and has donated heavily to both the Democratic party and President Obama’s election campaigns.

Hart also figured in a separate email exchange involving another Sony honcho, Clint Culpepper. In an email to several colleagues he called Hart a whore for demanding money to promote his own movie over his social media network.

“I’m not saying he’s a whore, but he’s a whore,” he wrote in a leaked email.

Hart was paid an estimated $7 million for his two most recent Sony pictures, but when he was asked to promote “Think Like a Man Too,” his agent asked for more money by claiming Hart was an expert in social media. He has 14.4 million followers on Twitter, according to his account.

In other leaked emails, Pascal and Rudin had a heated exchange over Angelina Jolie. The actress was demanding that David Fincher direct her movie “Cleopatra,” instead of Rudin’s movie about Apple Inc.’s Steven Jobs.

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